This month +Andrew Kondratev will give a talk on porting the Apache POI XSSF library (used for accessing Excel 2007 OOXML spreadsheets) to Android. It's not a trivial process and you run into some interesting problems (see below).

Following on from this +Julius Spencer will lead a general discussion about Android libraries, so have a think about your favourites and any interesting ones you've discoverd recently.

More info from Andrew:There is not much information on reading XLSX on Android. At least one proprietary library is available with a US$1000 license for ONE application for ONE developer. What about free and open source software? Apache POI seems to be the best answer and Apache POI HSSF (Excel 97) works fine on Android, but Apache POI XSSF (Excel 2007) won’t work out of the box because of 65K methods limit and some other issues. Dynamic class loading is not the solution in this case. We’ll walk through the process of making XSSF work on Android.﻿

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